THE SPINNING TOP

by This Fallen Fiction

sometimes i am spinning like a spinning top that never stops it never moves it never cares blurring my mind and turning my feet and sometimes i am out of tune like a music box that never soothes it never sings it never plays plucking my soul like a metal ball and yet i try to laugh as i watch that porcelain girl pirouette round and round i just keep on spinning like a spinning top blurring my dream away

sometimes i'm a water bowl like danaides bowl that never fills it never holds it never stops pouring me out and draining me dry and sometimes i am looked upon like a crystal ball that never speaks it never sees it never knows pointing me out to the vast unknown i hold my hands up toward the sun but i keep on grabbing soiled bits of air i keep on spilling my soul across the hollow ground but it never makes a sound you know that i am laughing like the spinning top today take me away i want to feel what the sun is like someday

sometimes i am poetry like a broken book that never rhymes it never heals it never feels dreams that paint but don't reveal and sometimes i am a violin that never sounds it never sins but always shames it's always wrong the song is right but the bow is wrong i spread these tears across the page like the notes of this bloody awful symphony and every time the music's played it's always to an empty stage

you know that i am blind you know that i am blind you know that i am blind you know you know that i am blind to everything pure that slips through this world there's just been too many scars cut across the innocence of my eyes you know that i am laughing like the spinning top today take this blur away forever does this turning seem to stay you know that i am dreaming of a world that never hurts take me away i want to see what the dream is like someday

written by jason pope

14 january 1999

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